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The Immigrants' Case of Shakespeare: A Discussion About Borders and Health Effects of Separation
In this podcast, public health researcher Kathleen Bachynski, Rudin Postdoctoral Fellow in the Division of Medical Humanities at NYU Langone Health, and Brit Trogen, pediatrics resident at NYU Langone and Bellevue Hospital, examine how Shakespeare's words connect through the centuries to current immigration debates. Through a careful reading of this Shakespearean text, Bachynski and Trogen explore how a humanities perspective raises moral issues at the center of an ongoing political and health crisis.
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Graphic Medicine:
Making Comics at NYU School of Medicine
In the Fall of 2018, the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine (MSPHM) at NYU School of Medicine launched a new course called "Graphic Medicine," developed by cartoonist and educator Kriota Willberg. Participants studied comics and graphic novels depicting various aspects of health and illness, discussed bioethical topics represented in graphic medicine, and drew comics of their own. The course culminated in this candid, poignant, and funny mini-comic.
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Bringing Narratives from Physicians, Patients and Caregivers Together
This scoping review by Tracy Moniz and colleagues explores "how first-person written narratives have been used to understand intersections and disconnections among the illness and care experiences of physicians, patients and caregivers."
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First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait
Author M. Sophia Newman writes, "Narrative medicine is the rare technique that physicians can use to consider the poetic, the emotive, the philosophical. It’s an essential, rhizomatic counterpart to the rest of medicine."
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Highlights from
Division of Medical Humanities Projects
BLR Featured Issue: "Reconstructions: The Art of Memory"
From Marcel Proust to Oliver Sacks, memory has been both a muse and a source of endless literary and scientific inquiry. The Bellevue Literary Review's theme issue — "Reconstructions: The Art of Memory"— turns a literary lens to the relentlessly precarious process that is memory.
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New Annotation on the LitMed Database:
Russell Teagarden on Electricity by Bryn Higgins and Sukey Fisher
"The Wellcome Trust co-funded the movie with the British Film Institute because it saw in Lily’s story an opportunity to explore temporal lobe epilepsy ‘through her eyes.’"
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Quick Links
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Calls for Submission & Other Opportunities
Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities
This international conference is co-sponsored by the Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group (a Wellcome Trust funded research project based at the Universities of Exeter and Birbeck, London, UK). It will be held at Montclair State University (Montclair, New Jersey), October 26-27, 2019. Abstract deadline: April 1, 2019. More information.
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Events
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The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Medicine, and the Great War
At the NYU Center for the Humanities
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Esmé Weijun Wang: The Collected Schizophrenias w/ Alice Sola Kim
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Narrative in the Arts
Hosted at Caveat, this evening event showcases select works from a panel of artists followed by a moderated discussion. Meet the artists and learn more about how they incorporate narrative and storytelling into their work.
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Narrative in the Natural Sciences and Humanities
Two-day symposium: Feb 28 - March 1 | Columbia University
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41st Alexander Ming Fisher Lecture:
“Suicide: Clinical and Personal Perspectives,” a Talk by Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD
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Burnout in Healthcare: The Need for Narrative
This workshop provides an intensive introductory experience to the methods and skills of Narrative Medicine, with a special focus on the ways narrative medicine techniques can approach the issues of burnout and moral injury in healthcare, and in the workplace in general. Earlybird registration rates available through February 8th.
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Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
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7th Annual Brain Day
At NYU Langone Health
The program is free and open to brain enthusiasts of all ages.
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Headcase: LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness
At The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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The Hospital Zone at Ellis Island: A Walking Tour
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The Environments of the Health Humanities: Inquiry and Practice
Health Humanities Consortium Annual Conference
March 28-30, 2019 | Chicago
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Poetry and Mathematics: A Conversation & Book Launch
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Reproductive Ethics: Challenges and Solutions
At NYU Langone Health
This one-day conference will explore the emergent ethical/legal issues related to: egg donation; embryo donation; sperm donation; the use of direct to consumer testing for adoptees to identify biological parent; third party reproduction; and mitochondrial DNA replacement and uterine transplants. The activity will also include a film shown during the lunch break, Thank You for Coming, which tells the story of two women finding their sperm donor fathers through the use of DNA analysis. The director, and star of the documentary, and other conference presenters will be present for panel discussion after the film.
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The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour
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Creativity in Medicine: A Doctors Who Create Conference
At the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia
Registration closes February 13
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Germ City: Microbes and the Metropolis
At the Museum of the City of New York.
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